We're a masonry contractor based in Beaumont, TX, and since 2013 we've been fixing cracked brick, crumbling mortar, leaky chimneys and settling foundations on houses people already live in. I'd rather match what's there and fix the cause than sell you a whole new wall.
(409) 240-0376
I learned this trade laying brick and block on new houses going up around Beaumont, so I've seen how a lot of these homes were put together before anyone moved in. Now we work on the ones people already live in, and the calls tend to sound alike. A crack shows up over a window, the chimney lets water in, or the joints turn to sand when you rub them.
Wet weather, heavy rain and low ground in parts of the city are hard on masonry, so water is usually somewhere in the story. It soaks into soft mortar, sits against a foundation or finds a gap at the chimney. That's why the first thing I look for is where the water's coming from, because a patch on a wall that stays wet doesn't last.
We reply to every call and message within one business day. I'll come out to your Beaumont house myself, look at the job and send you a written estimate after the visit. It's free, and there's no obligation.
(409) 240-0376Most of our Beaumont calls are for brick repair and tuckpointing, raking out worn joints and packing fresh mortar back in, on brick that's taken years of rain. We handle chimney repair when water gets in at the top of the house, and foundation repair when cracks in the brick turn out to start lower down. Out on the lot, we build retaining walls, walkways and driveway pavers that carry water away from the house instead of toward it.
Every permit in Beaumont goes through the city's Community Development office. Its Building Codes staff review site plans before a building permit is issued, then inspect the work while it's going on. On a job that needs a permit, that review and each inspection are steps the schedule has to wait on. So if yours needs a permit or a historic approval, I'll tell you at the estimate, and we'll help get it in place before we start. The price turns on how far the damage goes, whether the cause has to be fixed first, how hard your brick is to match and how high or tight the work sits. The written estimate I send after the visit gives you your own number.
The city's permit list also covers driveway, grading, street cut and barricading permits, so when work reaches the driveway or the street, we check with the city before anyone digs. Rain moves our dates more than anything else here, because fresh mortar doesn't like a downpour. We plan around the forecast and tell you when it pushes a day. We do the same work in Vidor, Lumberton and other cities around Beaumont, but each city has its own office, so we check with the one that covers your address.
I come out in person to look at the job, so the person pricing it is the one who knows the trade. Our masons do the work, and I'm on site to check it, because a repair that blends in depends on details you only catch up close.
If a few bricks and some joints will fix it, that's what you'll hear from me, not a pitch for a whole new wall. When the crack is coming from something underneath, I'll show you that too, because covering it up just means calling us back.
We're fully licensed and insured, and we keep the mess small by covering walks and beds and cleaning up like it's our own house. Satisfaction guaranteed on every job. Call (409) 240-0376 or use the form, and I'll set up a time to come look.
Your price comes from how much brick or mortar has to come out, whether a cause like settling or a leak has to be fixed first, how closely the new work has to match the old and how hard the spot is to reach. A few joints on a low wall cost far less than a chimney top or a foundation corner. I'll give you a written figure once I've seen it.
You find permit information and apply on the city's permit portal, and the city's page on applying for a permit links to guides on signing up and submitting. If your masonry job needs a permit, I'll tell you at the estimate and we'll help get it in place.
Whoever holds the permit schedules every inspection on the city's online City Works Portal, and inspections can't be booked over the phone. Questions about inspections go to the city's Building Codes program. If you're not sure who holds the permit on your job, ask me at the estimate.
The city takes permit fees only in person at City Hall or through its official online portal, so a request to pay any other way isn't from the city. Real city email comes from a beaumonttexas.gov address, and the city tells applicants to check for that before they reply.
Call the city's Planning and Zoning Office at 409-785-4789, because that's where the city sends people for the mapped flood level, called the Base Flood Elevation, in the undetermined "A" flood zones on the federal flood map inside city limits. It's worth knowing before we plan a foundation repair, a block wall or a retaining wall low on your lot.
You can, and if your house needs a certificate of appropriateness, the historic review approval the city's planning division processes, I'll tell you at the estimate and we'll help get it before we start. The planning division also processes requests for historic tax exemptions and historic preservation loans, so they're worth asking about on an older home.
We match the brick's size, color and texture and the mortar's color and joint shape to your wall before we cut anything out, because a patch that stands out is what people notice from the street. Older brick can take some hunting to find, and that's one of the things that can move the start date.
